19 Best mystery books like The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime by Doug Kari

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The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime

By: Doug Kari

3.85

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a strol…

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1. If You Really Loved Me

By: Ann Rule

3.91

Format: None pages,

There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife.... David Brown was the consummate ent… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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5. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

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  • mystery
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6. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
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7. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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8. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

By: M. William Phelps

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

11. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. Secrets of the Octopus

By: Sy Montgomery

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

13. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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14. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. While We Were Burning

By: Sara Koffi

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, exa… read more

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  • mystery
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16. The Waltham Murders

By: Susan Zalkind

3.09

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking col… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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17. Say My Name

By: Joe Clifford

3.59

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

SAY MY NAME is a true-crime story about a crime that never happened—or did it? On the heels of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • true crime
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18. What Grows in the Dark

By: Jaq Evans

3.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this chilling contemporary horror novel, a phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1) by Vanessa Le

19. The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver #1)

By: Vanessa Le

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Las… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

20. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

21. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze

By: Stephanie Perry Scissom

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

When her seven-year-old daughter Lizzy disappeared into a corn maze on Halloween night in 1984, Cat… read more

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23. Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family

By: Jordan Mechner

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces the pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. Lilith

By: Eric Rickstad

3.96

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am—a New… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"I find no comfort in it, eternity, everlasting life. When I am dead, I will be gone, and I will never know I existed. I will not know I ever was. Just as when I am asleep, I do not know I exist or ev…"

-Eric Rickstad, Lilith

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25. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

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  • mystery
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

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26. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

27. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

28. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

29. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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30. The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime

By: Doug Kari

3.85

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a strol… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) by Fiona Barton

31. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

14 Best history books like The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime by Doug Kari

Transform Your Habits

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

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The Amish Wife

Gregg Olsen

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

John Glatt

3.94

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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